Recent content by Hibana

Also, look at civilizations in tropical savana's. I can't think of any off the top of my head, but there've been large civilizations (sometimes massive empires) in all sorts of environments throughout history. Of course, we don't always have all that much information about them, but it might be...

As a new author, should I risk having a story focused around non-humans? Or one without any humans whatsoever? (Basically, are humans needed for an audience to feel sympathetic to the characters?) None of my main characters are human at the moment - one's a (fairly weak) spirit trapped in a...

I normally base my societies heavily on real-world cultures (especially odd ones that few people do), often with some cross-over from other societies and my imagination (especially when there's limited information), plus logic (as in: if I have this, what, logically, would go along with or...